On Jan 05, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
a. Cross-platform without tears (well just a few).
b. Being able to develop on a Mac.
c. Rapid App Development. The best I've seen since my Delphi days.
d. A decent, non-arcane (c.f. C++) OO language and framework, with
garbage collection, etc.
No garbage collection
It's reference counted
e. A reasonably responsive and friendly vendor (most of the time).
The question that also bears asking is "What is tempting you to
abandon REALbasic?". I'm happy to answer that one too:
a. Bugs and irritations that never seem to get fixed and when they
do, others pop up or existing working features break. I can
(finally) move from 5.5.5 to 2007r1 with my existing app. However,
the IDE is still _full_ of irritating bugs and is dog slow. Living
proof that RS don't use their own product*.
I think they still use an old version
When they do start using the current version to write the next
version I think you'll hear about it
At least I'd suggested they tell everyone about it
This is supposed to be how bootstrapping a tool is done. Use version
1 to write version 2, version 2 to write version 3
The developers then see all the bugs and warts and fix them as they go
I'm not sure that's happening today with RB but I'd love it if they'd
tell us that IS happening
That said I have no idea why it would not be
b. The code is quite slow unless enormous effort is made to
optimise. This could well be from garbage collection, virtual
methods, etc. The IDE is a case in point.
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